After all, she’s solved mysteries in more than a dozen other books. The body turns out to be that of an archaeology student who disappeared 20 years before. Suspicion falls on her bizarre ...

Invoking the Red Queen hypothesis, Vrijenhoek suggests the sexual populations are able to keep up or adapt to new selective challenges, while the asexual populations, essentially clonal, are not.

In the middle of "Red Queen," when things get a little pokey and the grisly details of the crimes begin to drag things down, it's the humor in the Scott/Gutierrez interactions that keeps things ...